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Originally Posted by CroFlames
That's interesting. I've lived in the USA and traveled to almost all states and I have found the opposite. It's amazing you haven't seen it, not even ONCE in 25 years.
Guys with all sorts of pro-gun slogans on their shirts.
Guys with printouts in flag format of the 2A on their homes.
Guys with trucks covered in pro-gun stickers and anti-government rhetoric.
Guys who literally never shut up about their guns.
Guys literally open carrying to go to 7-11.
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Originally Posted by Envitro
So now we're expanding the definition of what gun culture is to stickers, t-shirts, trucks, and not liking the government.
Cue Monster energy drink consumers as well.
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Those things CroFlames pointed out are the artifacts of a thriving culture. What was pointed out was the iconography of the culture and the proud depiction of being a member of that counterculture. Gun culture, also identified as Second Amendment culture, is real and it is very strong in the red states.
To suggest you have spent any time in the red states and not seen guns or references to guns everywhere is disingenuous. I've lived in the south for over two decades and guns are everywhere. You suggest you've only seen five guys open carry in a quarter century, I see that when I walk into a Walmart almost anywhere in Arizona, and we're not as bad as the bible belt states. You can drive any road and be passed by a vehicle (normally a truck) with some type of iconography to guns, the 2nd amendment, or some wackadoddle freedom group (Molon Labe, III Percenters, Oathkeepers, etc.) who only exist for the love of guns. It's the one thing that makes me believe this country will not hold together.